The future of IT: Questions and Answers

Doomsday predictions about India’s nearly $100 billion technology sector are nothing new. And Vineet Nayar, the former CEO of the country’s fourth-largest software company, HCL Technologies, has been ringing the warning bells ever since he was a top executive in the industry. Nayar, who now spends time leading Sampark Foundation, a philanthropic organisation working to help millions of school kids in India get smarter at math and languages, met me in Delhi for this episode of Outliers.

“If you’re a young engineer listening to this podcast, I would say you should be very worried,” he tells me. “I do not buy this argument of all will be well.”

In a freewheeling chat with Nayar, we try and find answers to questions about the future of Indian IT, ill-timed activism on the part of some founders, and discuss why those working in the sector need to take charge of their careers, urgently.